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it's part of the history of. cultural heritage foundation. starts june 21st on t w. this is news live from berlin mexico avoids potentially devastating us terrorists with a last minute deal on migration president from says planned levies on mexican goods are suspended indefinitely after mexico breeds to do more to stem the flow of migrants crossing its territory also coming up the. oceans are crucial to
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sustaining life but they face mounting problems like plastic waits for world oceans day our reporter goes to sierra leone to see what's being done to stop them. and germany's women kick off their world cup campaign with the one victory over china. i'm michael thanks for joining us. the united states and mexico have reached an 11th hour deal to crack down on migration from central america earlier the white house threatened to slap tariffs on mexico if it failed to stop record numbers of migrants from traveling through the country to the u.s. border but the deal appeals to fork fall short of key u.s. demand that mexico accept a designation of safe 3rd country that would have forced it to permanently take in
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most central american asylum seekers. it's the end of a dispute that threatened an all out trade war between the u.s. and mexico back at the white house after his trip to europe u.s. president trump safety announcement his preferred form of communication in a series of tweets late friday trump said tariffs would be indefinitely suspended and that mexico had agreed to take strong measures to stop central american migrants heading through mexico to the u.s. . mexico's foreign minister said the deal was a fair play to you people crossing into the u.s. to seek asylum will be rapidly returned to mexico while their applications for asylum are processed in turn mexico will allow these individuals to enter for humanitarian reasons in compliance with its international obligations them as united as the deal also sees checks being stepped up on mexico's southern border
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with somalia. speaking on the sidelines of the g 20 finance meeting in japan the u.s. treasury secretary steve minucci said trump's goal of fixing immigration problems on the mexico border had been achieved but he added trump could still impose tariffs if mexico failed to follow up on its pledges the deal ties trade to migration but the devil could yet be in the detail the final conditions are set to be hammered out in discussions between the u.s. and mexico within 90 days. for more on that mexican journalist from our spanish department is in the studio with me is will thanks for joining us so for now after a tough negotiations between the united states and mexico it appears that this dispute is resolved at least again for now where does that leave mexico well i think it's a very good deal for mexico because it was very origin 2 or resold these issues
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though it could affect both of their comics mexican and u.s. american economy and it was also very positive that it's one of our show that he's a man that do not things with the stomach so at the beginning when he was compared to become president many people argue that he wouldn't be able to to get this kind of conversations with all there are over months and now we're saying that well he's going to try to protect the mexican economy that he's not chavez is not another little he somebody that can handle but wolf there is a lot of there are a lot of issues still to resolve because this is just a solution for right now so what options does mexico actually have to address the migration issue and to basically you know stem the wave of these threats from the u.s. president to impose tariffs i think where one of the most important things was that the mexican i mean ministration was able to make try except to start to
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work you know long term strategy in order to help people in central america to have opportunities there we need to see how they implemented that because giving money to our author meant we also know that many times is not helping because of the corruption and it will be important to see if the individuals are going to get this kind of supporting all or to improve the local economies the other thing is not really try to speak more with all the. potential partners. a memory that partners they already have because last we saw germany was pretty afraid of this kind of treatment of treat because they have already a treatment with mexico there start to be a lot of their billing a lot of. industries there so mexico should need also to start the last part off of all their countries under this deal mexico has agreed to deploy some 6000 troops
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to its border with got a mole in order to stem the migration flow what's the likelihood that it actually will stem that flow well i think. that the. strategy they want to follow is 1st of all start to to control to make notice to realize who is coming why are they coming here why do they need a what do they need because all other governments just refused to see that problem they just ok they are not staying here unless them pass through commentry but it was a problem that mexico needed to to resolve it's not just like so. bad they trim half of mexico needed to tackle these problems in other also to help the migrants to be more safe in their current if you don't know who are they what are they doing there where are they going if if you go also to help them got it. the haze of
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thanks for so much for joining us. one of russia's top investigative journalists has been hospitalized hours after being charged with large scale drug dealing even go to najaf was admitted for medical tests nearly 48 hours after police detained him going off says he was beaten up while in police custody a russian opposition news source has posted video which purportedly shows is a lawyer being denied access to go it off meanwhile supporters have gathered at the courthouse where the reporter was set to appear. for more on this let's talk with alexander aleksei if he's a doctor and a close friend of even go to know i'm so happy that you had the time you to join us please tell us whether you've spoken to evolve and if so how was he doing i didn't speak with him it is impossible now nobody from his france can speak with him where i can get the information on live from shawn always and from his lawyer so journalists can speak was just lawyer and the last information that i've got 5
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minutes ago he was in the hospital and then man physicians all this hospital said that iran has no any neurological just urban centers or fractures but still he proved that he has hematoma blood. on his eye and lots of. hemant on his body it means he was admitted op and. if i'm hearing you correctly you're saying is you looks like he's got blood stains on him a much home on his and on his back yes and obviously this is going to trouble you yes. let me ask you this what do you know about even personally most people hearing this news have no idea who he is frankly are these charges of drug dealing credible as far as you're concerned i know of on mall and for hearsay and his my close
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friend and i never seen he was getting drugs it is impossible it is not possible to. dealing with something with drugs and sure he couldn't do that i don't believe it i don't believe it and i know him very good if you say it's not possible what you are clearly implying is that these are trumped up charges that these are false charges fos charges if that's the case then what was he writing about in other words what might he have done to provoke this kind of action as i know as i read his investigations he was writing about corruption in the moscow city government the last of the suggestion was about. micro-credit credits in moscow and about gravy out of business all what's happened with death people in moscow. that oh i know i understood
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alexander aleksei if i really appreciate your spending some time with us thank you very much thank you. today is world oceans day the annual observation helps draw attention to efforts to protect the oceans and their ecosystems one of the biggest threats they face is plastic more than 100000000 tons of plastic waste have collected in the oceans causing chaos in some coastal regions did. travel to sierra leone to see why the capital freetown is struggling to cope. the best way to get from freetown airport to downtown is. captain. express has been making the journey for 15 years his biggest challenge navigating through the plastic debris is the. base interest they've been they've been in existence in the. last 4.
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510 years. plastic trash clogs up the engine almost every journey that's why someone keeps watch at the back of the boat to let the captain as soon as it happens often the damage is already done. 3 towns plastic problem is also evident in other parts of the city some blame the government but drainage canals awash with trash point to the need for an alternative approach to waste. yet sierra leone still does not even have its own plastic recycling center. either ends up in a landfill sometimes right in the city center or it's exported the head of the environmental protection agency says the government must act immediately he admits there have been failings but now he would like to see a complete ban on single use plastics. we differ have objection. we have to find. those people so if
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we have a lot of. selling does drastically. so it does their livelihoods so you have to find. that money doubt they'll be a plastic bag on any time soon so the tourism authority has begun working with civil society groups and they've hired 80 employees to collect the washes up on the beach. meanwhile see coach express it's fitting it's near his boats with 4 engines to prevent breakdowns as long as the plastic problem remains unresolved operating costs will remain high if the will to a clean up the company says customers would be paying much less for a ticket. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the u.n. says the number of venezuelan refugees has now reached 4000000 it's one of latin
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america's worst ever humanitarian emergency so more and more people have been fleeing the socialist country with little sign of a solution to its political and economic crisis. g 20 finance ministers have begun a 2 day meeting in japan they agree there is an urgent need to find a global system to tax internet giants like google and facebook they're also discussing risks to the global economy could encourage trade tensions between the u.s. and china. tens of thousands of revelers have turned out for gay pride parade the event comes as the ruling conservative law and justice party ramps up its opposition to the team by the government has depicted the movement as a threat to families and children ahead of parliamentary elections later this year . it's day 2 of the women's world cup and germany have won their opening match against china the reigning olympic champions are one of the tournaments
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favorites but initially struggled to put their mark on the game. germany almost got off to a dream start with this opportunity in the 3rd minute out a day brits firing just inches why china had a chance 10 minutes later one chunk shannon should have pulled the trigger sooner was out of doors and cogitate deflecting the shot in the nick of time. china came agonizingly close again as young lead curled an exquisite effort into on what schultz post was a huge let off for germany. germany's big break arrived in the 2nd half of dawson college a corner was cleared but only as far as julia when the midfielder was smashing home to put her son night in the lead for good. one nil the final score and coach martina foss techmeme board could be happy that her team came away with
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a scrappy victory. 10 is now and ashley barty has won the french open the 1st grand slam singles title of her career on a windy day at roland garros the 23 year old australian had little trouble beating marchetta. of the czech republic in straight sets 6163 the victory means barty is now the number 2 ranked woman in the world. you're watching the news from berlin coming up next reporter this time looking at youngsters who dream of becoming professional football players don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock. me. how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on love. don't expect happy ending.
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still if he'd have to get through the biggest make it break without a football thanks. again.

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